Miniaturized multimodal CARS microscope based on MEMS scanning and a single laser source

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23796-23804

  Murugkar, Sangeeta ^a   Smith, Brett ^a   Srivastava, Prateek ^b   Moica, Adrian ^c   Naji, Majid ^a   Brideau, Craig ^d   Stys, Peter K ^d   Anis, Hanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b RatworX Inc   (Canada)

^c Department of Clinical Neurosciences Hotchkiss Brain Institute University of Calgary ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; FLUORESCENCE; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROSCOPES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; POLYSTYRENES; PULSED LASERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER; HANDHELDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VIVO IMAGING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MULTI-MODAL; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SCANNING MIRROR; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SINGLE LASERS; TI:SAPPHIRE; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; LASERS; MICE; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPY; MINIATURIZATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 78149418433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023796     Document Type: Article

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